Thinking Strategically
Strategic thinking isn't just for boards and leadership teams. This course helps you develop practical strategic skills so you can make better decisions, prioritise effectively, and think beyond day‑to‑day firefighting.
Thinking Strategically
This course will enable you to
- Understand what strategic thinking is and how it differs from plans and tactics
- Make more effective strategic decisions using evidence, insight, and structured thinking
- Apply common strategic tools to analyse priorities, risks, and opportunities
- Understand how strategy works as a process, including goals, metrics, and evaluation
- Embed strategic thinking into your professional role with confidence
About the course
In uncertain and fast‑changing environments, operational excellence alone is no longer enough. Professionals are expected to make sound decisions, allocate time and resources wisely, and explain the “why” behind their actions - often without perfect information. Strategic thinking provides a framework for navigating complexity, ambiguity, and competing priorities.
This course explores what strategy really means in practice. It looks at how strategic thinking differs from planning and tactics, how effective strategic decisions are made, and how strategy works as an ongoing process rather than a one‑off document. You’ll examine common strategic tools, learn how data and insight inform better choices, and understand the role of vision, objectives, and measurement in shaping direction.
You’ll come away with greater confidence in your ability to think strategically in your own role. This course will give you practical ways to question assumptions, manage uncertainty, and embed strategic habits into your professional life - helping you move from reacting to events to shaping outcomes.
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Anna Faherty
Anna Faherty is an award-winning teacher and researcher who runs her own content development and training consultancy, Strategic Content. Anna is expert at communicating complex technical information to non-technical audiences. She uses the phrase, "Communicating Stuff. Really well." to describe what she does and organisations of all shapes and sizes endorse that by asking for her help. By working with a broad range of clients, Anna has acquired experience of many different sectors and many different aspects of many different sectors and learned how to adapt to different working cultures.
